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M: | Tammy, you once had Baker for a professor, didn't you? |
W: | Yeah, for a couple of classes actually. |
M: | Was she always so demanding? I mean, did she used to mark your paper really hard? |
W: | Well, she had her standards, but I don't recall her ever being that strict. At least not with papers anyway. |
M: | Well, I've always said you were some kind of "brain" or something. I don't think there's a professor in the world that you don't find easy. |
W: | Flattery will get you nowhere, Hal. But I think most of the others felt she was quite straight forward and fair. |
M: | Yeah, well, I'm not saying she's unfair. It's just that it seems, no matter what I do in my assignments, she docks me marks with no real explanation. |
W: | I had that problem once. In the first paper, I ended up with a "B". I thought it was a pretty good paper so I went to see her about it. And I was surprised how open and frank she was. She clearly told me her standards and expectations. |
M: | But shouldn't she have been doing this in class, long before she even gave out assignments? |
W: | She tends to be deliberately vague to force you to seek out her expectations. She wants you to be creative first and then think of your boundaries. |
M: | I See. She must be getting students knocking on her door for answers every time an assignment is handed back. |
W: | Well, I guess that's what she wants. |